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Camera+ goes to the movies

I’m excited to present to you Camera+ 3.9 for iPhone (along with 1.4 for iPad)! I’ve got a bunch of very nifty things to show you…

Effects layering

In this new version, we’ve brought the iPhone and iPad apps one big step closer to each other by adding effects layering to the iPhone. Now you can easily combine any number of Camera+’s effects to create some cool, new looks. Mix, match, and blend until you get the perfect combination. You’re limited only by your creativity.

It took us three major attempts (and countless smaller iterations) to get effects layering to feel just right and intuitive on the smaller surface of the iPhone. We’ve come up with a pretty neat UI to accomplish it and I’m confident that you’re going to be pleased with the end result.

Here are a few samples of this powerful feature…

Diana (65%), Sepia (21%), Vibrant (60%)

Miniaturize, Purple Haze (17%), Magic Hour (91%)

’70s (87%), XPRO C-41 (78%), Depth of Field

Hollywood Effects Pack

It’s been quite a while since we’ve released a new effects pack for Camera+. Over 2½ years, actually. Well, I’m happy to say that we’ve got a real treat for you today! Introducing the Hollywood Effects Pack… 9 stunning new effects and borders inspired by your favorite movies and TV shows.

You can demo the Hollywood Effects Pack for free. When you decide to purchase it, you can unlock all its cinematic goodness for a paltry 99¢. Get it now, before we receive 9 cease and desist orders and it’s too late!

Please note that the inclusion of the DVD border caused quite the rift within the company. There was an actual knife-fight resulting from it. So even if you hate it, out of appreciation for the sacrifices Three-Fingered Louie made for you, at least pretend to like it.

Miscellaneous

Effects layering and the Hollywood Effects Pack are the big, new things in 3.9, but we’ve got a bunch of additional features and bug fixes we’ve also included…

In keeping with the theme of the Hollywood Effects Pack, we’ve added a couple of new widescreen cinematic crops… 1.85:1 and 2.39:1. Now you can crop your pics to feel just like they belong on the big screen. Only chumps and sucka MCs limit their crops to just squares. MAKE IT WIIIIIDE!!

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Camera+ now utilizes your Facebook account if you have it setup in iOS settings, making for quick and easy setup within Camera+.

Using Camera+ on that weird, new iPod touch that only has a front-facing camera would rip a tiny hole in the space-time continuum, teleporting the user into a parallel universe where they became an Android user. We’re deeply, deeply sorry. In any case, that’s now fixed in this version.

It’s always nice to reevaluate things and polish any weak spots and we’ve done just that in this version. We’ve made a few small usability improvements that should make Camera+ feel just a bit more intuitive to use.

If you’ve purchased any effects packs in Camera+ and have multiple devices with iCloud turned-on, your purchases will now conveniently be synced for you. It’s a very welcome improvement over the whole “restore purchases” rigmarole.

Here’s one that’s a bit perplexing… in Camera+ 3.8, we added support for several languages in addition to English. One that we didn’t add was Brazilian Portuguese, the native language of Brazil. Yet, since that release, the country that Camera+ has consistently ranked the highest in is… Brazil. Go figure. But for this release, we actually have added the native Brazilian Portuguese and I’m willing to wager that Camera+ tanks in the rankings in Brazil. If anyone has any explanation / crackpot theory for any of this, I’d love to hear it in the comments below.

Camera+ 4

When we released Camera+ 3.8, I mentioned the upcoming Camera+ 4, which we’ve been working on for quite a while. Well, then that whole iOS 7 thing came along. So we’ve juggled a few things and the Camera+ 4 I mentioned is now going to be called something else and the Camera+ 4 you’ll soon see is essentially going to be our response to iOS 7. We’ve burned a Jony Ive in effigy and buckled-down to bring you a new version of Camera+ that’ll feel right at home in iOS 7, but not lose the spirit of what Camera+ is. The designs are all in place, we’re truly delighted with them, and the programmers are hard at work implementing it all right now. That’s all I’m going to share about it at this point. Stay tuned…

99¢ until Sunday

If you’re an existing Camera+ user, as always, the update is free to you. If you’re one of the few remaining holdouts, now’s your chance to get it and save 50% as it’s on sale for just 99¢ until Sunday. Go get it!

Camera+ 3.9.1 emergency iCloud sync bug fix

We’re really not 100% positive about the hows and whys of it breaking, but in the just-released Camera+ 3.9, iCloud syncing broke. In any case, we‘ve released a quick update to fix it.

We apologize for any inconveniences and frustrations on your part. Now go and enjoy all the goodness that Camera+ 3.9(.1) brings.

iOS 5.1.1 holdouts: we just submitted a Camera+ fix that’ll get you up and running again. Please continue 1-starring it until it’s approved…

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We already know v4 is on the way and we also know about the UI change. The least you could have done was to give us a date
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I’m seriously thinking about permanently moving to “ProCam” they have faster updates and every time they do an update they introduce a new “useful” feature. If you wanna live on you gotta learn from them, and if you can’t compete with them in a good way, copy from them!…

I can not turn on my iPhone iCloud sync, although I have set up the same as on my iPad. Is this a bug with Camera + (Version 3.9.)? And why do you get on the iPad Hollywood FX Pack free? Not that I have anything against it, but …

Ah man! It’s a great update! Sadly, I was really hoping for white balance editing. Will we ever get these features on the iPhone version? It’s such a hassle to have to push them to the iPad just to adjust the white balance or exposure and then save it back to the iPhone or having to export to an app like kitcam to do those edits and then save to camera roll and then re-import them into camera+ to finish the editing and publishing is really time consuming.

I love the snot out of camera+ and it’s the only app I want to use and it’s the only app I take photos with but editing is a different story. I love what you guys are doing. I’m excited to see what else comes out, I just hope eventually you’ll consider putting the manual editing in the iPhone version so it’s more like the iPad version.

I have the same problem as other people, iCloud sync on my iPhone used to work perfectly, the new 3.9 update breaks this. It claims that iCloud is not turned on when it is. Restore the old version to my iPhone and it works fine again without doing anything else.

Shame. I used to love Camera+ when it was first released. Was always my go-to app. Sadly, this release is too little too late. Not only are you required to pay for additional updates after 2 years, but even these filters are so far behind the competition, it makes me wonder what you guys have really been doing for the past 2 years?!

Snapseed and VSCO Cam blow anything Camera+ ever did and this update doesn’t even come close to doing anything that those two apps pull off well.

WOW looks great team. I wasnt a big one on the iCloud Syncing, as IMHO Camera+ was just too slow in the sync process even over WiFi.
Im on iOS7 and all works great, but the progress bar is still white out, but i get the chime when the ‘save to’ is done.
Keep up the work and look forward to the iOS7 version.
Looks like we all are going to add a little iOS7 to our Apps ;P
Well done but my only gripe is, if you want a certain part in some of the new borders, you need to crop it to fit some of the crammed horizontal borders. Not cool

Linda re failure to launch, repurchasing won’t work as it will just reload 3.9.1 again. I was lucky as I still had 3.8 in iTunes on my PC so could restore. The only guess I have is that 3.9.1 doesn’t work with IOS 5 and those of us smart enough to not load IO6 have been abandoned by the Camera+ team. Would be good if they’d at least acknowledge there is a problem.

Use this app occasionally. Bought the hollywood fx package for a nice filter I used. However, it only let me use it one time! I tried to use the fx package again and it prompted me to pay again, or “restore purchase.” I enter my info, but the app then says “unable to restore purchase.” What gives? Please don’t tell me you expect me to purchase this again. Can anyone assist me with this??

Hi, guys..
I ‘updated’ camera+ for iPad and it doesn’t work anymore..
This app is my favorite of all and I miss my albums of my best shots I used to keep on it, it was about 1000 pics, ok that I lost them but I think it should be saved in an album in photos..
Keep going good work..
Waiting for new update to fix my app..
Take care..
@kattiab